Originally Posted by gear
When a clyde looses weight, they still have the big leg muscles they needed to move the weight they used to carry, so ex-clydes are probably going to be fast.
+1 on that. I was around 340 at my highest. At 245 and dropping so many things are just so much easier. Over short sections I can power past people, but on a long climb it's still quite a thing to drag all of me up a mountain. 20 more pounds to my ideal weight.
-Adam